[1] From 1600, it is referred to as Skidenstræde (Schiden Strede), literally "Shitty Alley", probably due to the odeur from a covered sewer which passed under it.

They also pointed out that several residents in the street were involved in trade with Germany and the Netherlands and that phrases such as "Mijn Heer… in de Schietstraat tot Copenhagen" could leave their foreign business connections with the impression that they lived in a sewer.

[3] Danish Chancellery forwarded the letter to Copenhagen's magistrate who consulted city architect Jørgen Henrich Rawert on the matter.

[4] The museum building and the library flank a courtyard space separated from the street by an iron fence.

The two-story building on the corner with Peder Hvitfeldts Stræde is a former Latin school associated with the Church of Our Lady.